Description
- ISBN-10: 1800621213
- ISBN-13: 978-1800621213
- Publisher: Cab Intl
- Publication date: 3 March 2022
- Language: English
- Dimensions: 15.6 x 0.99 x 23.39 cm
- Print length: 181 pages
Original price was: ₹5,283.37.₹4,755.03Current price is: ₹4,755.03.
Explore the complex challenge of global food security in ‘FIGHT AGAINST FOOD SHORTAGES AND SURPLUSES: PERSPECTIVES OF A PRACTITIONER’. This insightful book by an agricultural economist with three decades of experience tackles food price volatility, a critical issue impacting millions worldwide. Discover how unstable prices for essential commodities like wheat, corn, and rice lead to hunger, famine, or devastating surpluses that harm farming families. The book delves into the causes and consequences of this imbalance, evaluating policy tools and proposing a practical strategy using grain buffer stocks. Understand how governments can manage food and farming to ensure stable prices that benefit both consumers and farmers without harming market efficiency. Essential reading for students, researchers, and policymakers in economics, international development, agriculture, and food security.
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